# Half asleep "dream" question.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 10, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-asleep-dream-question/387351 "2007-01-10T00:58:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-asleep-dream-question/387351/1 "2007-01-10T00:58:43Z")

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Sometimes, as I’m falling asleep, I begin to have a “dream”. It’s not like an REM-type dream, because I make up the story as I go along, and only happens in the first stage of sleep. There are is no “visual” or “audio” stimuli. Sometimes it feels like I can “see” the words, a dark (as in, absence of light, not a physical color) background, with a word that seems to be lit up by a flashlight. I never actually see letters, though, just lines of text, that scroll down. I somehow feel that I must read at the speed it’s scrolling, and I get pissed at the end, usually, because I’ll hear something that wakes me.

Does this happen to anybody else? Does it have a name?

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**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-asleep-dream-question/387351/2 "2007-01-10T01:35:40Z")

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Happens to me, too. In my case I see the blank pages of a book, and as I read the words fill in. It’s always total stream-of-consciousness stuff that makes no sense at all. It continues until I either fall more deeply asleep or wake up.

I don’t know if it has a name, but it’s definitely entertaining. Much more fun than the malevolent little demon girls who glare at me from the corner of the room when I’m having hypnagogic hallucinations.